Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

Alma Rubens, the Lady Isabelle of the William Fox screen version of ''East Lynne," shows how the role was played by some of the leading stage stars who have essayed it; left to right: as she would have appeared in 1865 when Mrs. Scott Siddons created the famous role; second, as she would have dressed in 1895, when Rose Coghlan played the part; third, the Lady Isabelle of 1907, as portrayed by Margaret lllington; fourth and last, Miss Rubens in the costume which she herself wears in the Fox photoplay. WHIS SEVEREST CRITICS HEN Victor Schertzinger started shooting on "The Golden Strain," down at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, he found himself surrounded by a group of the severest critics whom any director was ever called, upon to satisfy. And unlike most critics, they displayed great unwillingness to talk. Chief among these were twetny-two Apache scouts who have served Uncle Sam long and faithfully along the Mexican border. These scouts, headed by a withered veteran who has been in the service for forty-eight years, are very watchful but very silent. It is almost impossible to get one of them to say anything. When an effort was made to photograph them, long conferences were necessary— and even then the actual "shooting" had to be delayed. "These men," said Lieutenant Fred C. Thomas of the I Oth U. S. Cavalry at Fort Huachuca, "have been at this fort for years. They were here when the oldest soldier came — and they have remained throughout the years. "There are only twenty-three Indian scouts in the service of the Government. One is stationed in Oklahoma 1 he other 22 are under command of Colonel J. C. Rheat at Huachuca. "Among the 22 are several who go back to the time of Benjamin H. Grierson, first colonel of the Tenth Cavalry. They are very wise — and they know Arizona as few white men know it." The oldest of the Fort Huachuca scouts is Tehnehjiheh. He merely smiles when you speak to him. Tehnehjeheh is a man of amazing wizardy. He is eighty years old, but he doesn't seem sixty — -and he can take you from Fort Huachuca in Arizona to Mexico City without following a roadway or riding on a tram. According to Colonel Rhea, this Apache is intimately acquainted with every ancient custom and he knows more about secret mountain passes than the famed and much dreaded Ceronimo ever dreamed of knowing. He has been forty-eight years a paid scout of the government. The remaining scouts are Joe Adley, Ivan Antonio, Jess Billy, Charlie Bones, Big Chow, Julius Colelay, DeKlay, Eskipbygojo, Tonay Pope, Alejo Quintero, Siner L. Riley, Kessay Rivers, Benson Sisto, Thomas Sye, and Silas E. Tenijieth. All are privates in the cavalry except Big Chow and Nonotolth. They are corporals. Big Chow, who ranks next to Tehnehjehein in point of service has been stationed in or near the famous old fort for more than 26 years. Charlie Bones in next, with 2 years service. Nonotolth and Thomas Sye have been with the government for 20 years while DeKlay has been at the fort nineteen years. They are called "detachment Indian scouts," and it is their business to trail bad men into obscure corners. Old Geronimo and Sitting Bull clashed with the forebears of these men — and several of the scouts remember Tom Horn and Al Sieber quite well. "Me with Sieber when Captain killed in Mexico," said old Tehnehjeheh, when he was finally persuaded to talk. "Tom Horn, him young fellow. I know." His reference was to the death of Captain Emmet Crawford, who was shot by Mexicans while pursuing Geronimo in Mexico. Sieber, a famous scout working out of Fort Huachuca, headed the Indians who trailed the old trouble-maker across the border. Eskipbygojo and Charlie Bones were members of that expedition. Colonel Rhea regards these men with the keenest interest and declares their services are invaluable along the Mexican border. No man has ever been able to get more out of them than Rhea, but even the colonel admits they have secrets of which he knows nothing. They are a silent band, but deadly, and they have an uncanny sense of direction. Few murderers have ever escaped justice when this relentless band takes up the trail. No mountain fastness is closed to them. They ride good horses and carry standard government equipment. Their village is a part of the Huachuca reservation, the latter comprising 1 00 square miles. HT PLAY BALL! X HESE days, when the chill winds whistle around 729 Seventh Avenue, and the East is feeling the hard coal shortage, it is nice to know that there is one place, at least, where baseball is the order of the day and thoughts of skiing and tobogganing are far away. The Christie Comedy studios baseball team, having downed the O. K. Transportation ball tossers last week in the decisive win of 1 6 to 3, are now tackling the Los Angeles Fire Department Sunday on the sandlots of Westwood and they are anxious to stir up something among the other studies. The comedy boys want the blood of the film colony and say they are open to challenges from E. M. Asher, producer of Corinne Griffith's pictures for First National, sisns a contract ivith Arnold Gray, whom he believes to be a genuine "find" for future stardom. Note Grays striking resemblance to the late Wallace Reid.